How many people are experiencing feeding refusals currently??

[SNIKTTIME]

I've got a few picky eaters that won't eat every week. However, I just learned a great lesson. I bought an 800 gram het for Pied female from Adam recently. I fed her yesterday for the first time. She wouldn't take the live small rat. I opened the tub, put the rat inside the tub and left for 30 minutes. Came back and she hadn't taken the rat.

Now realize, I asked Adam the usual questions about his husbandry. I got all the right answers. So I was confident there wouldn't be a problem, but here she was not eating.

I happened to be browsing the web and decided I'd go to 8Ball Pythons, Adam's web page. There was a video showing how he fed his snakes. There, while watching, the light bulb went off and I went in to the snakeroom, got the rat, fed the snake JUST LIKE Adam did in his video and the snake coiled around that rat like the best feeder you could ever want.

So, sometimes it's not the snake's fault, it's that we aren't doing something correctly and the snake has to learn how to live with us.

These snakes survive and thrive dispite our worst efforts.
Jim Smith

That is a great clip also the ''popping'' clip he has is good for people to see.

[j_h_smith]

That is a great clip also the ''popping'' clip he has is good for people to see.

It just goes to show that we may not know as much as we think we know. But our snakes thrive in spite of us.

Who would have thought that presenting a live rat in a different manner would get this little girl to eat. Just plopping the rat into the tub didn't work, but dangling a live rat from the end of hemostats and the snake ate like there was no tomorrow.

Who would have thunk it?
Jim Smith

[ElwoodG]

i just got my 09 female to eat on tuesday this week. last time she ate was almost 7 weeks ago on jan 4th. and in that time frame of not eating no matter what i did she wouldn't eat then on tuesday of this week i dangled the mouse by its tail in front of her and she took it like nothing had changed. happy that she ate but i thought you little bugger at the same time lol.